8ww #77 paper 29" x 40" x 15", 2001-2002 $6,200

Statement: Recipe for Prayer Papers Find appropriate materials by feeling the texture and listening to the sound when you handle them. Contemplate the creation. Measure and measure. Cut to desired length. Untwist, and then untwist some more. With your hands, fold in, fold in, fold in, fold in. Spin, stretch and stand. Your fingers twist, twist, twist. They stitch and tie, stitch and tie. Find your place in peace. Spin the spools of thread and remember to dance. Season to taste. Serve with gratitude and laughter. Preparation time: the length of a cosmic fugue. No baking required. Stand at room temperature to breathe.                                      Wendy Wahl

16ww #714 seven pieces paper 48” x 7” x 7” 2001-2002 $4,700

UNCOVERED GROVE: An Installation by Wendy Wahl November 9, 2007 - February 3, 2008 Wright Gallery Newport Art Museum 76 Bellevue Avenue Newport, Rhode Island 02840 401.848.8200 http://www.newportart museum.org/pages/ display.cfm

For Uncovered Grove, Wahl transformed the Wright Gallery at the Newport Art Museum into a, fantastical forest of paper trees and fallen "leaves." There are some 30,000 "leaves" in the grove - each a page from a discarded encyclopedia. Uncovered Grove is a play on the Tree of Knowledge, the artist explains. "I walk in the woods around my house every day and I'll pick up a rock or a log and turn it over and expose what's underneath, bugs or decayed leaves, and dirt." Visitors to Wahl's grove are invited to take off their shoes, wander the woods, and pick up leaves to discover the bits of information underneath. "The gallery has been expertly transformed; this is an installation in the true sense of the word. Wahl's masterful work serves to modify the way we experience the space, and as such, renders a once somber room iridisicent. There is a distinctly wintry wonderland feel about this contrived environment, as the pages, despite their small black type and the occasional burst from random color illustrations, cast a luminous ivory-glow overall.....Paths leading nowhere, entice the the visitor to wander -- like a helpless flaneur -- and it is difficult to resist the urge to throw oneself into the piles and roll around like a puppy in a fit of full-blown puppy joy....Childish delight and wonder aside, Wahl [ ] has succeeded in rendering a sophisticated and compelling exhibit using what she calls 'the mundane objects in our lives." Speak for the trees: A South County artist turns paper into a forest of words and wonder Lisa Utman Randall mercury, November 28 - December 4, 2007, p.19

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